Nano's 35g Cube
 

Hey Guy's its that time of year, where I get the itch to do something.
So I bought a use 35 gallon cube tank! I am hoping to do something truly
elegant, and different with the aquascape, but I need some suggestions.
its 24x24x15 so my height is a bit limited, but I am thinking 2 pillar
structures, one larger one in the back corner, and a smaller on middle
or front corner area. Both would have some shelves coming out of them.
Again open to suggestions

Equipment

Lighting
AI SOL super blue
AI controller
Still thinking of refugium light, most likely small t5/CFL supplemented with my old nano leds strips

Skimmer
Tunze 9002

Powerheads
2 Koralia 240

Custom Oak Stand built by yours truly (had some wild cherry I was going to trim it with, but decided against it), Custom AI mounting Arm being built By Greg(Thanks So much!!), not sure if I'll paint it white to match the SOL or black to match the eurobracing. (again open to suggestions)

Still figuring out the sump/fuge (will update)

The DT will be all Dry rock for aquascaping reasons, and all my live rock
will go in the sump, all though I might put one or 2 small chunks in the DT
temporarily.

I have 2 ocellaris, one bangai, one scooter blenny, that I plan on putting
in, and am looking at maybe 2 more fish, so suggest some! I want some
nice color but also functional fish (i.e. pest eaters)

Current CUC consists of
1 emerald crab
4 Hermits
2 Astrea snails
2 Turbos

Will update with pictures this weekend! But for now help me out with some aquascaping suggestions please!

Well, finally out of the 16g. It's about time :mrgreen:
Ha, honestly that didn't take you long. I kinda had a feeling this was going to happen when you found out your 20 was only a 16 or so.
Good upgrade.
You could ask Carrera75 if he'd send you some pics of his old Solana 34. I saw it before x-mas and thought it was nicely done.

thanks greg I will do that, yeah this tank is just too small,
its starting to come together only to get torn apart :lol: but
I secretly love cube tanks, and I think if they are done just
right they can be more appealing then long tanks. but it all
comes down to the rock work. I want it to be open, but have
the pillars for them to swim around, the main thing is creating
or the illusion of it. I just have a few more things to work out
i.e. sump, return pump, and plumbing, and I'm glad I'm getting
so much help fro all of you on here, cause I honestly would
what to do for mos of it!

If you don't already have this link Head Loss Calculator, you do now. There are some other calculators too on the lower left. Site is finicky though. I just tried it and it won't load. Happens from time to time. The site is deathly slow, so I never chat there :razz:

lol wow it is slow! I have 60mbps and its like a friggen snail! I have had time to type this whole message and its still not loaded. lol

It's up now

lol they try to make it easy for idiots like me for making a calculator, yet, I still dont know what I'm looking at. lol i'll figure it out. I cant believe it has all those pumps loaded in to the program to! thats neat thanks gregzz

So today I picked up everything I was getting built, and had ordered, Thanks Martin for the AI, and stand up friendly service!
Spent the better part of the day hanging out with Greg, and Martin as well, as we tackled the tank build.
I will post photos below!
First off, you can see I have joined the sump club! Thanks for the know how and the help on this Greg!
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...a/DSCN2554.jpg
Here is a FTS of my hand built oak stand, came out nicely!
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...a/DSCN2549.jpg
And The Cream of the crop!
I designed an AI mount, and Greg helped me make it a reality, thanks to him as always for all the support
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...a/DSCN2553.jpg

All that is left at this point Is to make my stand pipes, and plumbing, as well as find a 400-800gph return pump, and I'm ready to rock.
I will post some better pics in a bit, companies here so I can only be absent for so long :lol:

Bump for Greg, better pics tomorrow.

Nice job on the stand Ken, looks great :thumb: can't wait to see it all together & salty.